The House is slated to vote Wednesday on a resolution disapproving of President Donald Trump’s tariffs against Canada, in what could amount to a blow to Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and a rebuke of the president’s signature economic policy.
The tariff resolution, introduced by Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., will be considered a day after a procedural vote that would have barred House votes from disapproving of Trump’s tariffs failed with the support of three Republican members.
“The Speaker continues to abdicate his responsibilities, ceding Congress’s Article I authority to Donald Trump,” Meeks, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a statement posted to X on Tuesday. “Republicans now face a clear choice: go on the record and join Democrats in ending these cost-raising tariffs, or keep forcing American families to pay for them.”
A vote on Trump’s tariffs will force House Republicans to choose between loyalty to the president and striking down economic policy that many in the GOP conference do not like.
Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., and Don Bacon, R-Neb., bucked Trump and GOP leaders on Tuesday by voting with every Democrat to defeat a rule that would have blocked House votes on Trump’s tariffs through July 31.
